University of Washington

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

http://rehab.washington.edu/education/fellowship/uwaart/default.asp

Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training (UW-ARRT) Fellowship

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the University of Washington School of Medicine has initiated a UW-ARRT fellowship program to provide advanced rehabilitation research training for post-doctoral rehabilitation professionals. The fellowship is funded by a training grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the US Department of Education. In any one year, two post-doctoral fellows will participate in training.

Mentored Research and Training Opportunities

The mentored research opportunities provided by the fellowship can focus on any one of many aspects of rehabilitation research, including, but not limited to:

Disparities in access to health services

Chronic pain & fatigue

Community-based rehabilitation interventions

Use of IRT to improve measurement of rehabilitation outcomes

Neural control of movement

Biomechanical movement analysis

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Health promotion in persons with disabilities

Amputation & prosthetics

Speech disorders

Psychological distress in persons with disabilities

Pain and fatigue in youth with disabilities

Technology & disability

Hypnosis or virtual reality to treat disability

Improving employment outcomes

The comprehensive UW-ARRT training will include immersion in a mentored research experience that will match post-doctoral fellows with highly successful rehabilitation researchers. In addition, each fellow will participate in complimentary core and individualized didactics, supporting his or her development as a rehabilitation researcher. The UW-ARRT fellow will join an outstanding and highly interdisciplinary community of research scientists.